gtest-config script missing

[Dominik Alexander Klein]

in earlier packages (natty etc), this package installed the script /usr/bin/gtest-config , this is missing now.
Because of that one cannot compile e.g. ROS (ros.org) in oneiric.
I downloaded http://googletest.googlecode.com/files/gtest-1.6.0.zip and after compiling I copied gtest-config from the scripts folder manually into /usr/bin. This solved the issue for me, but it would be nice for others to include this file again.
Many thanks,
Dominik

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[D. Grady (fehknt)]

changed package from gtest to libgtest-dev, the actual package that used to have the gtest-config script, as seen at http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/amd64/libgtest-dev/filelist

[D. Grady (fehknt)]

hm apparently that reverts it to gtest source pacakge. My mistake. I can confirm that ROS has trouble compiling with this, as well as other cmake based packages that use gtest. Workaround for individual packages: add -lpthread. In cmake this can be done by:
find_package(Threads)
and adding ${CMAKE_THREAD_LIBS_INIT} to target_link_libraries.

[Julian Taylor (jtaylor)]

this is intentional, see NEWS.Debian:

gtest (1.6.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

  Use of precompiled libgtest is no longer recommended. See README.Debian
  for instructions on using gtest with your projects. The precompiled
  shared library has been removed and the static library will be removed
  in a future upload.

  The script gtest-config is no longer supplied since upstream's
  autoconfigure-based build is deprecated.